Historical Immersion: Geometry and the Emergence of Perspective

Professor Francesca Spagnuolo

In this course, students explore the role of geometry in the emergence of perspective drawing during the Italian Renaissance. Through in-depth comparisons of seminal treatises such as Euclid’s Elements and Leon Battista Alberti’s On Painting, students will rediscover the crucial ideas that motivated the development of (non-Euclidean) projective geometry in seventeenth-century Europe.

This blog assignment provides the audience with the history of something that the students care about and that uses content that they have learnt in the historical immersion class.

There are some examples of blogs produced by the students: